The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are… — Ralph Peters Copy Share Image
Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The only way I can access all my strength is to relax. ... The paradox is that you must learn to be… — Lynda Obst Copy Share Image
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But]… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when… — Patrick Dodson Copy Share Image
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent. — Ray Metzker Copy Share Image
You have to recognise your responsibility to your community for your actions. Liberty doesn't mean that you are not held accountable. Without… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm a paradox. I want to be happy, but I think things that make me sad. I'm lazy, yet I'm ambitious. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.” — Jan Wolkers Copy Share Image
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image